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The Dark Force
Online 168.100.161.129:28039 checked 10m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 29% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
no rhythm it keepsIts wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 3 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 25 Oct, 04:35 UTC3d ago | 2 | – | running | 1 |
| Sat 3 Oct, 09:37 UTC25d ago | 3 | halved by day 3 | 21.8 days | 0 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 18:41 UTC34d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 8.6 days | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 23:36 UTC42d ago | 0 | – | 7.8 days | 0 |
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
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01MODPlayers 51/500
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02MODPlayers 125/100
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03MODPlayers 39/225
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04MODPlayers 52/700
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05MODPlayers 9/200
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06MODPlayers 6/1000
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Filters
Which Rust Tracker filters and lists carry The Dark Force?
On Rust Tracker, The Dark Force sits in these lists: Modded servers, tracked live. These filters surface it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last week.
What do the tags mean that The Dark Force is listed under?
Listed for the server browser to read, The Dark Force publishes these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival mode for Rust; mp80 (Max players): Capacity: 80 slots; ts0 (Group limit): No teams — the setting is off; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code: not set; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings; listed under Modded. The tags also hold the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; all appear at the top of this page.
Wipe Schedule
What should you expect on The Dark Force when wipe day lands?
The average peak across recent wipes: 2 players. 3 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next wipe 0% of the time. In the other cases, half the peak was lost by day 2.5.
On what schedule does The Dark Force wipe?
Wipe times at The Dark Force are irregular, so no next wipe can be predicted. Next monthly force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes with it. Its world went live 3 days 19 hours.
Location and Status
How reliable is The Dark Force, and is it online now?
The Dark Force is up and online at this moment. By its own uptime figure, the last restart was roughly 3 days 17 hours ago. Uptime stood at 100% for the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours online. Rust Tracker logged it first on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is The Dark Force on?
Confirmed for The Dark Force: Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, Linux. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam updates it for you.
How smoothly does The Dark Force run?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours: 11, with a low of 5. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world took it to a maximum of 203,327 entities. Memory peaked at 5,243 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are what register as lag for players.
What location is The Dark Force hosted in?
No region is published by The Dark Force. Where a server says it is, Rust Tracker shows; where the machine stands, it does not look up. You connect at 168.100.161.129:28039.
Population
How many players are on The Dark Force right now?
Slots 80; players on board 0: that is The Dark Force now. Seven-day average 0 players; peak 2. Busiest window in 48 hours: 16:00 UTC, 1 players on average.
What rank does The Dark Force carry among Rust servers?
On player hours over seven days, The Dark Force ranks #6,409, inside the top 29% of all ranked servers.
Settings
Which settings and rules are confirmed on The Dark Force?
The name of The Dark Force carries no gather rate. No group limit appears. It runs survival, gather, build, raid, as the game intends. Players can raid and fight each other here. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Plugins on it: Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is loaded on The Dark Force?
Generated by the game from seed 825822194, the procedural map on The Dark Force measures 6,000. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: equal size and seed return the same map.
How to Join
Which steps join The Dark Force?
To connect: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 168.100.161.129:28039 in the console. Or use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and join.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp80,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts0,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp80
ts0
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.